History Main / DerelictGraveyard

* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', the crew of the [[CoolBoat Cool Submarine]] pass through one of these on the way into the SunkenCity deep within the HollowWorld, where Godzilla makes his lair.

* The crew of the ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' fly through one of these on their way to and from the planet Miranda, except that many of the ships are functional and inhabited by Reavers, who don't pay much attention to their ship after they disguised it to resemble one of theirs. All the while the ''Serenity'' is picking up communications from the Reaver ships, a lot of screaming from all of the people trapped on board. Or the Reavers. They're not exactly the sanest bunch.

* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' featured an airplane graveyard during Jetfire's introductory scene.

* ''Film/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon1990'' has one on the moon's surface, of all places, filled with ships from the Age of Sail to the present day.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'' a [[HumongousMecha Jaeger]] graveyard known as Oblivion Bay is mentioned [[AllThereInTheManual in the background material]] as a place where heavily damaged or destroyed Jaegers are stored as memorials, located in the place where the first {{Kaiju}} attacked. [[spoiler: Gipsy Danger is recovered from the graveyard and restored to functionality for the movie.]]
* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Ulysses Klaue makes his base inside an abandoned ship in a salvage yard that's [[ArtisticLicenseGeography a few Hulk-bounds away from Johannesburg, apparently]].
* In ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheForceAwakens'', Rey lives on Jakku, a site where a climactic naval clash between the Rebellion and the Empire occurred in the interim between the latest and original trilogies. On the surface is at least one crashed Star Destroyer listed to the side, and a completely capsized Super Star Destroyer of the same class as the ''Executor'' from the Original Trilogy. Crashed fighters also litter the ground too, and she lives in a wrecked AT-AT.
* A late scene in ''Film/Siren2010'' has Rachel and Ken discovering multiple shipwrecks just off the coast of the island: having being lured in and wrecked by the siren. The protagonists had not seen this graveyard earlier as their yacht had approached from the other side of the island.
* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', the crew of the [[CoolBoat Cool Submarine]] pass through one of these on the way into the SunkenCity deep within the HollowWorld, where Godzilla makes his lair.

* The Sirius star system in ''Sol-Feace'' has several ship components -- including a large sheet of fuselage -- that come careening towards the player's starship, all of which can be shopt back and redirected with opposing fire.
* ''VisualNovel/ThePiratesFate'' has the Cursed Coast. It's not ''literally'' cursed, but it is filled with thep hulls of ships hunting for the rumored treasure there and wrecked on its many reefs.

* The Sirius star system in ''Sol-Feace'' has several ship components -- including a large sheet of fuselage -- that come careening towards the player's starship, all of which can be shot back and redirected with opposing fire.
* ''VisualNovel/ThePiratesFate'' has the Cursed Coast. It's not ''literally'' cursed, but it is filled with the wrecked hulls of ships hunting for the treasure there and wrecked on its many reefs.

* [[http://www.lostdestinations.com/deadpool.htm The Deadpool]], also called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_boat_graveyard the Staten Island Ship Graveyard]], on Rossville, Staten Island, New York.

* In the Greg Mandel series by Creator/PeterFHamilton, the protagonist mentions a field of armored vehicles at the former Imperial War Museum at Duxford, decommissioned by the extreme left-wing government that's been (until recently) running Britain. They were supposed to be dismantled for raw materials, but due to government inefficiency this never happened and they had been left to rust and pollute the ground with leaking fuel and hydraulic fluid.

* All vehicles used in cleaning up ''UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}'' quickly became too contaminated to ever use again, and were abandoned in the Exclusion Zone, resulting in several of these. The river near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is littered with the half-sunken remains of ships contaminated by the 1986 disaster. One of these wrecks, the ''Skadovsk'', is featured as a stalker base in ''S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat''.

* In ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'', Rey lives on Jakku, a site where a climactic naval clash between the Rebellion and the Empire occurred in the interim between the latest and original trilogies. On the surface is at least one crashed Star Destroyer listed to the side, and a completely capsized Super Star Destroyer of the same class as the ''Executor'' from the Original Trilogy. Crashed fighters also litter the ground too, and she lives in a wrecked AT-AT.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' had one. [[ArtisticLicensePhysics They had to rig up a sail on the aircraft carrier to get out.]]

** ''Literature/UnchartedStars'': the ThievesGuild base at Waystar, mentioned in a number of other books, turns out to be a space station now surrounded by closely-packed derelicts apparently towed into place as a kind of camouflage.

** ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' features a level that includes fighting across dried lakebeds and the derelict shipping supertankers that now rest there.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox''

* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', for her training during the two-year TimeSkip, Kuma sends [[spoiler:the [[HumanityEnsues humanized]] [[SparedByAdaptation Merry]]]] to DavyJones locker. Of course, [[spoiler:since she had barely avoided [[VikingFuneral ending up there]] thanks to Cross's efforts, she considers this a FateWorseThanDeath and has an AnythingButThat response]].

* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekVoyagerEliteForce'', a space station made of the spaceships of various alien races makes an appearance.

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''
** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheCastleOfTheUnderseaDevil'' have Doraemon and gang exploring a shipyard underneath the Bermuda Triangle, where ships of both humans and Mu origin litters it's surface. Turns out those ships were destroyed by the robotic {{Sea Monster}}s of Poseidon's army.
** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDriftsInTheUniverse'' has a scene where Doraemon, Nobita, and their new friends Lian and his team of space cadets ends up in a spaceship graveyard, filled with floating wreckage of various alien ships. Stopping over to investigate, the later find out the reason behind the derelicts' existence when they're assaulted by an entire horde of power-consuming parasites that comes at them in entire swarms.

** In ''Anime/OnePieceBaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland'', after Sanji pulls Luffy out from the ocean, neither of them notices the numerous sunken ships, hinting at the island's sinister nature.

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' features a line of abandoned cargo ships docked on a dried-up river.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', the sharks all live in a sunken submarine surrounded by thousands of naval mines (which, according to Dory, are "balloons"). When Dory and Marlin flee Bruce the great white after he goes crazy with BloodLust, they accidentally cause him to ram the ship's torpedo bay and send a torpedo [[OhCrap flying into one of the naval mines]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' segment "B-17", after bailing out of his B-17 bomber, the pilot lands on a tropical island and finds it filled with crashed airplanes. Unfortunately, the pilots of those planes are still around, and they're angry zombies.

* In the 1946 film ''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives'', ex-USAAF bombadier Fred Derry walks through a [[RuleOfSymbolism graveyard of warplanes being stripped for materials to make prefab housing]], entering a B-17 nosecone where he's momentarily lost in his memories [[MoodWhiplash before being startled out of it]] by a worker demanding to know what he's doing (as Fred is out of a job, he ends up working there too).